... “brothers” killed in the citadel of Baalbek (now in Lebanon). Dadoyan says that it would have been strange if there were only 30 Armenian (Moslem) brothers and only in Baalbek. There must have been others ...
Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY IN LEBANON
Hratch Tchilingirian
One of the most valuable contributions of the Armenian Evangelical Church and its commitment to education is the establishment of the Haigazian University in Beirut. After four decades, it remains the only Armenian institution of higher education in the Diaspora. Haigazian — which has graduated over 1,600 students since its founding in 1955 — is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education of Lebanon and is a member of the Association of International Colleges and Universities. It offers 19 undergraduate and four graduate degree programs.
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Established in 1924, the Lebanon-based Armenian Evangelical Union of the Near East is one of the oldest among the five Unions that comprise the Armenian Evangelical Church. It is a union ...
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Ara (not his real name) was four years old when a social worker brought him to the Armenian Evangelical boarding school in Anjar, the Armenian village in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The school was already ...
... Union in Armenia “is a mixture of the Unions in the US and Lebanon,” says Rev. Rene Leonian, 48, who is AMAA’s representative in Armenia and President of the Union of Eurasia. “The Church in Armenia is ...
... Turkey and withdrew from the field. Armenian Protestant congregations began to scatter around the world.
Starting in 1923, Armenian Evangelical churches were established in Syria and Lebanon through ...
... its better days, considered the “Paris of the Middle East,” Lebanon attracted thousands of tourists from around the world. The Mediterranean coastline spreading north to south on the country’s east and ...
... who, by himself, was responsible for 300 statues.
A typical Diasporan, she was born in Baghdad, raised in Lebanon and is a German citizen currently living and working in Egypt.
Born into a family of ...
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By Hratch Tchilingirian
In mid-October, Cairo-born Bishop Bedros Tarmouni, 59, was elected Catholicos Patriarch of the Lebanon-based Armenian Catholic Church by the Synod of Bishops at the Monastery ...
Armenian International Magazine (AIM), October 1999, Volume 10, Number 10, pp. 52-53
Big Player Joe Baroutjian Reaches New Height in Lebanon’s Music Industry
By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
“Studio Joe” is tucked in the ground floor of an old, war-scarred building in a narrow alleyway of Beirut's Armenian neighborhood of Bourj Hammoud, where at night you can still park your car in the middle of the street and get away with it.
... miniature patterns, large collages and other multi-medium creations. These have been exhibited in a dozen countries around the world, including South Korea, England, Lebanon, Canada, Bahrain, the US and ...
... such as Lebanon, Syria, or Iran, and consider their time there as a transitional period in their careers. “Eventually, they will move back to their country of origin or to a third country,” explains Klenjian. ...
... in Lebanon and Egypt confirm Balayan’s characterization. While many of the problems and difficulties faced by Armenian publishers in the Middle East are local in nature, to a large extent their situation ...
... of Armenia. And for the first time in history, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, in Lebanon, was elected Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin. ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::Armenian International ...
Armenian International Magazine (AIM) June 1999, Volume 10, Number 6, pp 46-48
Master of Grand Theater Gerard Avedissian in the Cultural Landscape of Lebanon
By Hratch Tchilingirian
Playwright, actor, director and producer Gerard Avedissian, 55, is one of the most sought-after artists in the Middle East. A regular guest on the Lebanese television talk show circuit and the cultural scene, Avedissian is the master of the grand theater. “People expect something big and something well done,” he says, when they see his name associated with a theatrical production. In 1997, when he wrote, directed and co-produced “Ghadat Al-Camilla”—a musical play inspired by Alexandre Dumas Jr’s The Lady of the Camellias—some 55,000 people saw the production in one season.
Armenian International Magazine (AIM) April 1999, Vol. 10, No. 4, p 58-59
AN ARAB HISTORIAN AND HIS CAUSE Saleh Zahredeen Takes on the Armenian Genocide
By Hratch Tchilingirian
"The truth shall be told even while hanging on the gallows," confidently affirms Saleh Zahreedin, 48, Lebanese Druze historian and author of a dozen books and pamphlets in Arabic on the Armenians and the Genocide.
... sent first to Lebanon in 1978 as a diplomat and then, in 1986, appointed First Secretary of the USSR Embassy in Egypt. In 1982, Nalbandian was the youngest diplomat in the Soviet Union who was rewarded ...
... Lebanon, by Catholicos Sahag Khabaian — the "mournful" (vshdali) pontiff, as he called himself after witnessing the murder of his people in the Ottoman Empire.
In the last 50 years, the Catholicosate ...
... the presence of the respective patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem.
As expected, the election of Archbishop Aram Keshishian, 48, of Lebanon, as Catholicos of Cilicia, was carefully orchestrated ...
... in Central Asia and Caucasus Chronicle 8, 4 (1989): 7-10, and (Hiro 1994: 99).
[23] Al-Shi'raa weekly, January 15, 1990. See also Al-Safir, the second largest Islamic newspaper in Lebanon, ...